OpenDaylight source IP authorization

For many use cases, source IP based authorization is widely used to authorize the network elements access to OpenDaylight. For example, in some IoT cases you need to distinguish between different IoT devices based on their IPs to restrict access to OpenDaylight functionalities. In this recipe, you will learn how to set up OpenDaylight source IP authorization using Apache server.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need a new refresh OpenDaylight distribution, Postman as REST API client, VirtualBox to set up a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, and vagrant if you use the predefined vagrant file from the recipe folder.

How to do it...

1. If you already have the pre-request installed, you can skip this step and start directly from step 4. If you use the predefined vagrant file to establish the environment, first, you need to install vagrant if it is not already installed. Then you need to go to the IPBased-VM directory under the recipe folder:

$ cd chapter11-recipe4/IPBased-VM/

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